A massive sinkhole has opened up in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, halting traffic and nearly swallowing a nearby parked car. The 20-foot wide sinkhole opened up on 79th street in Brooklyn, between 4h and 5th Avenues. The sinkhole was reportedly 15 feet deep.
A Brooklyn couple, already reeling from the loss of their stillborn baby, had their grief compounded after the New York City Medical Examiner's office gave them the wrong infant.
William Patrick Hitler reportedly wrote a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt requesting that he be allowed to enlist in the U.S. military to fight against the Nazis in WWII.
Chick-fil-A has seen a backlash since the anti-gay statement made by company president Dan Cathy, but the fast food chain is claiming that ?Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day? has set new records for the restaurant.
This week's sign of the apocalypse: Washed-up former baseball player/professional whiner Jose Canseco has been hired by Vice.com to do a weekly column.
U.S. Airways said it will assist the federal officials in investigating a report which said that three commuter jets came close to within seconds of a midair collision at the Reagan National Airport on Tuesday, after air traffic controllers mistakenly cleared two outbound flights in the direction of another plane that was coming in to land.
The FBI kept tabs on Monroe under the file "Foreign Intelligence." J. Edgar Hoover was worried she had taken up with communists while other conspiracies suggest the Kennedy brothers had her killed. Theories have only heated up since the FBI has delayed releasing information to the Associated Press.
A Virginia woman saved her dad after lifting the BMW he was pinned under and performing life-saving CPR.
Facebook founder and billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg's sister Arielle is reportedly working at Google. This news caused a lot of chatter among the technorati, including buzz about whether or not a collaboration between the two Internet giants is in the works.
A German submarine was found 70 miles south of Nantucket Island after almost 70 years of sitting on the bottom of the ocean. U-550 was sunk after it torpedoed an American tanker, which led to depth charges from the USS Joyce. The crew abandoned ship and now researchers plan to tell the families of the casualties the exact location of their loved ones' resting place.
Crop circles have appeared in a wheat field located in Wilbur, Washington, not far from the nation's largest hydropower producer.
Chinese officials and nationals are infuriated over doping allegations involving the 16-year old swimming superstar Ye Shiwen. She was later cleared of using banned substances by the World Doping Agency.
Moira Johnston had enough when other people at her yoga studio complained that she took her shirt off, even though the male yogis were doing the same. Since May she's been walking around lower Manhattan with her breasts exposed to raise awareness that women can go topless.
Women are not the only ones faking orgasms anymore. While you may think your man loves your sex life, he could be lying to you.
Sarah Jones, a onetime Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader captain accused of sex with a teenager, tells ABC News it angers her to be called the "female Sandusky."
A South African child, Sibusiso Mokoena, who was born with his brain outside of his dead has died, according to the Associated Press.
Police have located on Tuesday the body of missing FBI agent Stephen Ivens behind a church in Burbank, Calif. The 35-year-old agent had been missing since early May.
A man was attacked by a shark on Cape Cod's Ballston beach while he was body surfing on Monday afternoon. This 40-year-old man was believed to be about one third of a mile offshore when the whale bit him on both his legs, according to local reports. He was rushed to the Cape Cod Hospital immediately and was then transferred to the Massachusetts general hospital in Boston later during the day.
This August will bring a rare blue moon, as two full moons will bookend the first and last days of the month. The somewhat rare occurrence in which a month has two full moons leads the second to be dubbed a ?blue moon.?
If Milton Friedman were alive today, he would be 100 years old. The Nobel-prize winning economist has transformed the way many people think about the government and economic policy.
On the heels of a gruesome theater shooting in Colorado and with estimates that 48,000 Americans could be killed by guns in the next four years, two Democratic lawmakers have proposed a legislation to ban the online sales of ammunition in order to prevent potential mass murderers from stocking up.
A fake article putting the New York Times? substantial editorial heft in support of Wikileaks made rounds over the weekend, fooled many a reader and even at least one NYT staffer before founder Julian Assange?s organization came forward to take credit for the hoax.
Power outage hit Indian capital New Delhi for the second consecutive day on Tuesday, just as the city was recovering from a blackout following the collapse of the northern power grid Monday.
A Colorado man was arrested Sunday night for bringing a handgun into a movie theater in Thorton, Colorado, located just 25 minutes from the Aurora theater where James Holmes killed 12 people and injured 58 during a July showing of "The Dark Knight Rises."
Colorado theater shooting suspect James Holmes was charged Monday with multiple counts of murder and 116 counts of attempted murder. However, his sanity is still in question, and so is whether he will escape the death penalty based on an insanity defense.
Karen Klein, the bullied bus monitor who was videotaped while being taunted by children is retiring. This announcement comes shortly after a fund set up to raise money for her reached $700,000.
Monday is National Cheesecake Day and you can celebrate this momentous (and delicious) occasion by stopping by The Cheesecake Factory, where the restaurant is debuting its Oreo Dream Extreme Cheesecake and slicing the prices of all their cheesecake desserts in half.
You would think being a volunteer at the 2012 London Olympics would be hectic or stressful, but one Olympic volunteer is taking her duties with stride after a video went viral on YouTube called "Happiest Olympic Worker 2012."
Grid failure left more than 300 million people without power in New Delhi and much of northern India for hours on Monday in the worst blackout for more than a decade, highlighting chronic infrastructure woes holding back Asia's third-largest economy.
A major power outage caused a blackout in Northern India, the worst since 2001, and severely hit normal life in eight states since late Sunday night, following the collapse of the the northern power grid.
